Erik and James I really appreciate your feedback. The problem is resolved. It was related to py3 development and py2 in production. Erik had hit the nail on the head which I discovered when I went looking at why other tests were passing and those two were not. I had been inconsistent in implementing @python_2_unicode_compatible
Thank you again Mike On Wednesday, February 25, 2015 at 9:08:45 PM UTC+11, Erik Cederstrand wrote: > > > > Den 25/02/2015 kl. 05.33 skrev Mike Dewhirst <[email protected] > <javascript:>>: > > > > ====================================================================== > > ERROR: test_checkreference_exp > (substance.tests.test_substance.TestSubstance) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Traceback (most recent call last): > > File "C:\Users\mike\env\xxdx3\ssds\substance\tests\test_substance.py", > line 57, in test_checkreference_exp > > self.assertEqual(subst.checkreference('1'), True) > > File "C:\Users\mike\env\xxdx3\ssds\substance\models\substance.py", line > 449, in checkreference > > if checkit(self, ref): > > File "C:\Users\mike\env\xxdx3\ssds\substance\models\substance.py", line > 441, in checkit > > val = u"{0}".format(obj.__dict__[field]) > > TypeError: __str__ returned non-string (type bytes) > > "obj.__dict__[field]" returns an object that has a __str__ method > (format() calls the __str__ method of the object to convert it to a > string). The __str__ method should only return unicode data but is > returning byte strings. What does "obj.__dict__[field]" return, and can you > show us the __str__ method of that class? > > Erik -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/708ead8d-ba38-4676-8f2f-fc10b2ad4aab%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

